Effects Of The 20th Amendment

The nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution states, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” This amendment was ratified on August eighteenth of 1920 by the Secretary of State, Bainbridge Colby. The amendment did not get ratified till 1920, but the fight for women’s suffrage started long before, in the mid nineteenth century (General Records of the United States Government, 2002). Today many women assume that their right to vote as if it has always; however, this luxury has not long existed. The amendment is not even a hundred year old yet. The nineteenth amendment has great history behind it, strong women who led it, and effects on the way we live our lives today.

Until 1951, there was no law restricting the number of times the president of the United States could run for office. After the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Congress proposed the 22nd Amendment. Since its ratification, the highly controversial amendment has survived every attempted repeal. Contemporary presidents of both parties, President Regan and President Clinton, supported repealing or modifying the amendment whereas other presidents believed a repeal would result in political stagnation. While there are certain benefits of restricted term limits, the otherwise undemocratic 22nd Amendment should be repealed.

The money lost from Prohibition helped hundreds of thousand of people with almost anything, yet the government decided throw it all

"The drinking of alcoholic beverages became an act of rebellion against authority from the beginning of Prohibition, especially among university students and flappers." Alcohol consumption did increase over Prohibition years, "$40 million of liquor had been smuggled into the United States in 1924" alone and that did not include the amount of alcohol which people made illegally in their own homes, which was most likely consumed that same year as well. There was a decrease in the consumption of beer, because it had to be transported in large quantities, which made the substance difficult to hide, as a result prices of beer and other alcoholic substances which had to be transported in such large quantities skyrocketed. Once this had happened people began to turn to the more concentrated forms of alcohol or "hard liquors", which were a lot easier to transport and as a consequence they were cheaper. Due to the increase in consumption of more concentrated forms of alcohol, people got drunk much faster than in pre - prohibition years. Consequently there were more alcohol related deaths during the Prohibition, due to a rise in alcohol consumption, as people were being poisoned by alcohol that was highly concentrated and or poisoned. "Deaths from poisoned liquor rose from 1,064 in 1920 to 4,154 in 1925."

Over 100 years ago a sweeping reform changed America. The progressive movement. In the early 1900s this progressive reform redefined more than a century of American tradition. William Schambra and Thomas West noted that. “the Progressives, wanted the people 's will to be more efficiently translated into government policy. . . . that the people would take power out of the hands of locally elected officials . . . and place it instead into the hands of the central government.” This sounds great, but we all know. It didn 't work. This progressive reform gave us instead the Federal Behemoth as it is today. During the progressive movement things were passed like Federal Income Tax and the complete government control on the US dollar by the

     Alcohol is illegal! “The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now; women will smile and children will laugh. Hell will be forever rent” (Thorton 9). The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution went into effect on January 16, 1920, with three-fourths vote from congress (Boorstin 994). The National Prohibition of Alcohol was adopted to solve social problems, reduce the crime rate, stop corruption and minimize the tax burden created by prisons. Some immediate results of the amendment included organized crime and the corruption of public officials. As time went on, the stock

With each new president comes new ideas, new methods, and newer everything. Our Congress is in deep economic trouble right now and they need new ideas fast. Fortunately for us, our current president is almost out of office and a new president is almost here. If there were no term limits, then there would never be any new ideas. When running for re-election, former presidents have an obvious advantage. Most people assume that because they’ve been in office before, they are therefore better than someone who hasn’t and others just don’t want to change anything. Because of that, there will hardly ever be any new presidents, and therefore never any new ideas.

Have you ever wondered how women became who they are today? Or maybe you’re wondering how did they do it? Well i’ll tell you how it all started with the 19th Amendment to the roles they played during the 1920’s then from there it lead to the fashion of what we call Flappers and then after the of the flappers stage it then lead to the new culture of the 1920’s.

This article by the New York Times talked about the 26th Amendment, what fueled its ratifications, and the effect it had on society following it passing. The article starts out by setting up the background to before the amendment's ratification, showing how during the Vietnam War in the 1960s soldiers were being sent off to fight in a war but were still too young to vote. This bizarre fact stirred much dissent from the young population of the time, who went on to protest and push for this to be changed. The article then talks about through the protests, the proposal for this amendment quickly was passed, the fastest that any amendment has been ratified then or since. At the end of the article, however, the article shows that this amendment

This resulted in illegal sale of liquor, gangs, crime, and death

The 1920’s of America was a time of many dramatic social and political changes. New fads arose, the economy changed, and thousands of people were transitioning from rural to urban areas. During this time, new amendments emerged, like the 18th amendment. The 18th amendment, prohibition, may have seemed like a positive thing at the time, but it caused countless problems like increased crime rates, the court system and law enforcement became corrupted, and the making of homemade alcohol increased.

The 19th amendment was the true beginning of the women's fight for their rights, because the right to vote provides a powerful voice. In the twenties, women were discriminated - sadly, they still are - so society didn't let them vote. However, women didn't accept it, and they began to fight for their right to vote. Senator Aaron A. Sargent introduced the Nineteenth Amendment to the Congress, which prohibited denying the right of vote to U.S. citizens based on their sex. In 1919, the Congress passed the amendment, and in 1920 it was ratified. Today, women not only can vote, but they also have participation on the government, for example Madeleine Albright. She was the first woman that became the Secretary of States on the United States. Even

As a result of this new law, a new social problem arose. “Seldom has law been more flagrantly violated. Not only did Americans continue to manufacture, barter, and possess alcohol; they drank more of it.” Americans who supported prohibition, argued that if drinking alcohol was illegal, the public would recognize and respect the law, and in turn, would give it up. During the start of prohibition, it appeared as though it was working. But, what was really going on, was that since the transportation and production was not allowed, bootleggers had to find ways to do it without being caught. The price of beer rose, because it had to be transported in large barrels, which was more difficult. As a result, people started drinking more potent hard liquor. It took less to get drunk, therefore it was easier to transport, thus, it was cheaper. Americans would drink this potent liquor and get drunk a lot faster, for less money. As a downfall, however, the liquor had no standards. The rate of alcohol related deaths due to poisoning drastically increased from 1,064 in 1920, to 4,154 in 1925.

Mississippi, the focal point of national consideration and some feedback as of late after entry of enactment that could let organizations and government authorities not to give administrations to some same-sex couples. HB 1523 was signed into law on April 7, 2016 by Gov. Phil Bryant will take effect on July 1, 2016. This law makes it able for allow public officials and private businesses to refuse to offer services for gay marriages. “Gunn said he wrote the bill in response to the brief jailing of Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court ruled such marriages legal. The bill specifies clerks and staffers must find someone in the office willing to sign the license, but

The long term impacts of prohibition range from the start of the great depression to the creation of drinking laws. One of the most prominent effects of prohibition was the impact on the brewing industry. Many breweries closed and never reopened again after prohibition. An example of how a brewery survived is Anheuser-Busch survived by making other products, such as ice cream, root beer, malt extract and corn syrup.[1] The impact on breweries could be seen in Saint Louis, there were twenty-two breweries but after prohibition only nine reopened.